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Horns • • • Soul • • • and ALL thatJazz
SOLO
SOUND
A trio of hornmen from Renton High School perform a number during the Second Annual GRCC Jazz Festival held Tuesday night.
Photo By Duane Hamamura
Vol. 7 No. 18 GREEN RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE 12401 S.E. 320th Auburn, Wa. 98002 Thursday, Morch 2, 1972
Senate creates info committee
A Student Information Committee
was formed by the senate on February
23. This committee will consist of four
people, one of which must be a senator.
The committee shall be responsible for
providing students with information
about their government and other items
of interest. This information will be dis­tributed
to the students through either a
pamphlet or the Current.
Mr. Mcintyre, director of Student
Programs, reported on the problem of
unallocated funds that had come up at
the last meeting. It had been previously
agreed that no unallocated funds would
be drawn without the signature of either
Terry Ingram, director of Clubs and
Organizations, or Eric Dukes, Comptrol­ler.
Jack Johnson had transferred some
of these funds to the Recreation fund
without a signature. Mcintyre reported
that this was an oversight on Johnson's
part, and would not happen again.
The constitution of the Philosophy
Club was ruled constitutional by the judi­cial
board, and approved by the Senate.
Five senators and three judicial board
members were going to be sent to a
WACCSG (Washington Association of
Community College Student Govern­ments)
retreat. The senate was told that
no agenda had been prepared, the re­treat
had been called off twice and dis­cussion
was to center around clubs. With
this information, the senators decided
perhaps it would be better to forget this
re.treat and send representatives to the
spring retreat. ·
Weekly "idea exchange" between tbe
senate and Mr. Mcintyre was set up at
the last meeting and will be held Mon­days,
at noon.
There was a motion made to move
the senate meetings from noon Wednes­day
to 5:00 Wednesday, with no time
limit. It was said a one hour meeting
Bob Corcoran on
just about everything
Bob Corcoran, host of a variety-talk
show on channel 13 television, spoke in
PA 8 last friday at noon. His topic was
"Government and Politics."
Arriving a few minutes late, Corcoran
started by explaining how he got started
in his television show, which he has been
doing for five years.
Corcoran told how he first started by
doing play-by-play baseball and basket­ball,
and advertising for the B&I Depart­ment
Store. He also had a talk show on
KOMO which was broadcast from the B
&I. One night Corcoran was called to
host late movies on KTVW with call in
i:1termissions, then the show was
changed to what it is now.
Corcoran described channel 13 as "ra­dio
with slides," and he said "Monday
night football is the only thing that has
hurt my program."
He went on to explain what he
thought of the recent session of the Leg.
islative, and described it as "strictly a
power game." Corcoran said that for the
44 days that they met, it cost $33,000 per
day, and that that was only the known
cost. He said that bills were almost pas­sed,
with no way to provide funds for
them.
Corcoran thinks that the two biggest
issues facing the coming election are the
education and law & order systems in
our country, and he urged young people
to "Get involved in what's going on."
He accused politicians for using the
legislative floor for campaigning purpos-es,
and that politicians pass things only
because it is "good for their image."
He went on to talk about the Law and
Order system, and said "the Jaw and
order pro11ram has a problem in Wash­ington,"
and he explained how a man
who was sentenced to 20 years for sec­ond
degree murder, and let out in three
years. He also said that at the Walla
Walla prison hospital, inmates were lin­ing
up to receive their daily "uppers,
downers, or whatever," and that prison­ers
with serious medical problems
couldn't get proper attention. Corcoran
said that the prison issue " is going to be
used politically in the next election."
Corcoran went on to talk about prop­erty
taxes, and explained that property
taxes pay the wages for public workers,
such as firemen, teachers, and police­men.
He said that many organizations,
including churches, should start paying
taxes, "or at least their fair share."
Corcoran urged the 18-year-olds to
register to vote, and to get involved. He
recommended a book, "The Real Majori­ty"
that shows where politics is going,
for anyone who is interested in the sub­ject.
One of the questions following his talk
was, "What do you think of the
decriminalization of marijuana?" Cor­coran
said that he does not favor it, but
he thinks "it is ridiculous to put someone
in jail for a few joints." He compared
the possession of a small amount of mar­ijuana
to jay walking, in terms of seri­ousness.
GET
INVOLVED
Bob Corcoran urged participation by young people to get things done .
Photo By Kari Miller
does not provide the senators with
enough time to complete their business.
This motion was ammended to read
Thursday at 5:00, but because not all
the senators were sure they had that
time available, the motion was tabled
until the next meeting.
Anyone wishing to take part in stu-dent
government is invited to attend the
meetings which are currently held at
noon, Wednesdays, in the Rainier Room.
or to contact any of the senators. The
senators all have office hours which are
posted in the Student Programs office in
the Lindbloom Student Center.
Open Mike to link
students to action
The people at the top will be up front
to field questions from the people out
there tomorrow.
The first open-microphone session will
take place tomorrow at noon in the main
dining area of the Lindbloom Student
Center.
The format of the informal session
will place administrators, and student
leaders behind a microphone to answer
questions from students.
Eric Dukes, GRCC Comptroller, who
was instrumental in getting the idea off
the ground, and onto the platform said,
"It will serve as a link of communica­tions
between students and administra­tors."
Dukes will serve as a moderator for
what will be "a gripe session, rap ses-sion,
whatever. Anyone with a question
can ask one. The purpose is to be infor­mative.
It's not going to be set up for
personal attacks on people."
Dukes said he hopes there will be suf­ficient
interest. If there is they will be­come
regular events, "maybe we could
have one every month."
"If anyone has a question, and feels
he doesn't want to get up in front of
everyone to ask it, they can submit it in
writing and put it in my box in the Stu­dent
Activities Center," said Dukes.
Those who will be on hand tomorrow
include, the Dean of Instruction, Dean of
Students, Director of Student Programs,
members of the student government, aP..d
the editor of the Current. Dukes said
that Dr. Lindbloom will be present if his
schedule allows it.
MORE
MUSIC
The Green River Swing Choir displayed their talents in a noon concert
yesterday in the Lindbloom Student Center.
Photo By Kari Miller Veterans strive
for united lobby
With the now passed Bonus Bill for
Veterans behind them, and several other
pieces of legislation completed on their
behalf, veterans lobbyists in Washington
State warned that strong and united ef­forts
will have to be made to insure fu­ture
legislative success
While the talley of the agenda ended
up with four victories including the bo­nus
Bill and only one item was defeated,
Ernie Roberts of Tacoma, Legislative
Chairman for Disabled Americans of
Washington State, said that veterans
could have done better with a united
front.
Cited by Roberts were the Bonus Bill,
which would give Vietnam veterans $250
starting in 1973 and a bill that would al­low
the state to provide free tuition for
the dependants of men who are prisoner~
of war m Viet Nam.
Roberts also explained legislation that
would provide for free license tags to
veterans blinded by war action and other
legislation that would provide for the
guardianship of Vietnam veterans who
are incompetent or insane.
While these were passed, another bill
that would have called for preferential
treatment in employment failed. It was a
senate bill which never got out of com­mittee.
Although there were efforts made to
include all Vietnam era veterans in re­cently
passed legislation, they met with
no great success according to Roberts.
Additional efforts, which would have
made this legislation retroactive to 1964,
also failed.
SISTER
SOUL
Audrey Smith from Roosevelt High in Seattle brought the house down
down wit~ her solo Backing her was Roosevelt's Swing Band.
GET
THAT
BOOGIE
Green River pianist Brooke Lizotte shows great concentration in this
number . Featured with the GRCC Jazz Ensamble th is year was alto
saxist Bill Ramsay.
Photos by Terry L. Chubb
Black belt affair
Contestants from the entire West
Coast and parts of Canada will be on
campus March 4 to participate in the
Third Annual Green River Karate Cham­pionships.
This nationally recognized tourna
ment will bring together over 200 partici­pants
to vie in individual competition for
tropnies ana medals.
Sponsored by our two karate organi ­zations
- the J udo-Karate Club and the
Tae-Kwon-Do Club the tournament will
offer competition in the four divisions:
White Belt, Colored Belts. Brown Belt
and Black Belt. Approximately 20 mem­bers
of the two GRCC clubs will take
part in the full day of competition.
The tournament chairman this year is
Steve Armstrong, an eighth degree black
belt, from Tacoma. He will be assisted
by tournament director Lyndon Meredith
and the head referee will be Bob Hill.
Both men are also black belts.
The elimination rounds will begin at
10 :30 a .m. with the final competit10n
starting at 8 p.m.
Admission prices for the tourney are
$1.00 for students (pre-tickets) and $2.00
at the door !$1.50 with ASB l.
Current Quickies
REPRESENTATIVE TO SPEAK
Representative James A. :'vlcDermott
who has been mentioned as a possible
candidate for governor, will be at Green
River Community College March 7.
McDermott will speak in the main dining
area of the LSC at 1:30 p.m. His topic
will be "A Candidate for Governor."
McDermott is a 35 year old doctor
who represents the 43rd district. He is
married and has two children and re­sides
on Capitol Hill in Seattle.
DRAMA DEPT. PRESENTATION
A play entitled "The Children's Hour"
will be presented this weekend and next
in PA 8. The show starts at 8 p.m. and
tickets a re ava ilable at the door.
INFORMATION AVAILABLE
Information on student government,
for students is available by contacting
the Secretary in student programs. Any­one
who wants a copy of the proposed
constitu tion and by-laws, which will
shortly be voted on by the Senate and
students, they are available from student
programs.
BAT GIRLS SOUGHT
The GRCC baseball team is looking
for four (4 l bat girls to help out this sea­son.
Those interested can contact Jack
J ohnson in the ARA Building or the Stu­dent
Programs' Office.

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Horns • • • Soul • • • and ALL thatJazz
SOLO
SOUND
A trio of hornmen from Renton High School perform a number during the Second Annual GRCC Jazz Festival held Tuesday night.
Photo By Duane Hamamura
Vol. 7 No. 18 GREEN RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE 12401 S.E. 320th Auburn, Wa. 98002 Thursday, Morch 2, 1972
Senate creates info committee
A Student Information Committee
was formed by the senate on February
23. This committee will consist of four
people, one of which must be a senator.
The committee shall be responsible for
providing students with information
about their government and other items
of interest. This information will be dis­tributed
to the students through either a
pamphlet or the Current.
Mr. Mcintyre, director of Student
Programs, reported on the problem of
unallocated funds that had come up at
the last meeting. It had been previously
agreed that no unallocated funds would
be drawn without the signature of either
Terry Ingram, director of Clubs and
Organizations, or Eric Dukes, Comptrol­ler.
Jack Johnson had transferred some
of these funds to the Recreation fund
without a signature. Mcintyre reported
that this was an oversight on Johnson's
part, and would not happen again.
The constitution of the Philosophy
Club was ruled constitutional by the judi­cial
board, and approved by the Senate.
Five senators and three judicial board
members were going to be sent to a
WACCSG (Washington Association of
Community College Student Govern­ments)
retreat. The senate was told that
no agenda had been prepared, the re­treat
had been called off twice and dis­cussion
was to center around clubs. With
this information, the senators decided
perhaps it would be better to forget this
re.treat and send representatives to the
spring retreat. ·
Weekly "idea exchange" between tbe
senate and Mr. Mcintyre was set up at
the last meeting and will be held Mon­days,
at noon.
There was a motion made to move
the senate meetings from noon Wednes­day
to 5:00 Wednesday, with no time
limit. It was said a one hour meeting
Bob Corcoran on
just about everything
Bob Corcoran, host of a variety-talk
show on channel 13 television, spoke in
PA 8 last friday at noon. His topic was
"Government and Politics."
Arriving a few minutes late, Corcoran
started by explaining how he got started
in his television show, which he has been
doing for five years.
Corcoran told how he first started by
doing play-by-play baseball and basket­ball,
and advertising for the B&I Depart­ment
Store. He also had a talk show on
KOMO which was broadcast from the B
&I. One night Corcoran was called to
host late movies on KTVW with call in
i:1termissions, then the show was
changed to what it is now.
Corcoran described channel 13 as "ra­dio
with slides," and he said "Monday
night football is the only thing that has
hurt my program."
He went on to explain what he
thought of the recent session of the Leg.
islative, and described it as "strictly a
power game." Corcoran said that for the
44 days that they met, it cost $33,000 per
day, and that that was only the known
cost. He said that bills were almost pas­sed,
with no way to provide funds for
them.
Corcoran thinks that the two biggest
issues facing the coming election are the
education and law & order systems in
our country, and he urged young people
to "Get involved in what's going on."
He accused politicians for using the
legislative floor for campaigning purpos-es,
and that politicians pass things only
because it is "good for their image."
He went on to talk about the Law and
Order system, and said "the Jaw and
order pro11ram has a problem in Wash­ington,"
and he explained how a man
who was sentenced to 20 years for sec­ond
degree murder, and let out in three
years. He also said that at the Walla
Walla prison hospital, inmates were lin­ing
up to receive their daily "uppers,
downers, or whatever," and that prison­ers
with serious medical problems
couldn't get proper attention. Corcoran
said that the prison issue " is going to be
used politically in the next election."
Corcoran went on to talk about prop­erty
taxes, and explained that property
taxes pay the wages for public workers,
such as firemen, teachers, and police­men.
He said that many organizations,
including churches, should start paying
taxes, "or at least their fair share."
Corcoran urged the 18-year-olds to
register to vote, and to get involved. He
recommended a book, "The Real Majori­ty"
that shows where politics is going,
for anyone who is interested in the sub­ject.
One of the questions following his talk
was, "What do you think of the
decriminalization of marijuana?" Cor­coran
said that he does not favor it, but
he thinks "it is ridiculous to put someone
in jail for a few joints." He compared
the possession of a small amount of mar­ijuana
to jay walking, in terms of seri­ousness.
GET
INVOLVED
Bob Corcoran urged participation by young people to get things done .
Photo By Kari Miller
does not provide the senators with
enough time to complete their business.
This motion was ammended to read
Thursday at 5:00, but because not all
the senators were sure they had that
time available, the motion was tabled
until the next meeting.
Anyone wishing to take part in stu-dent
government is invited to attend the
meetings which are currently held at
noon, Wednesdays, in the Rainier Room.
or to contact any of the senators. The
senators all have office hours which are
posted in the Student Programs office in
the Lindbloom Student Center.
Open Mike to link
students to action
The people at the top will be up front
to field questions from the people out
there tomorrow.
The first open-microphone session will
take place tomorrow at noon in the main
dining area of the Lindbloom Student
Center.
The format of the informal session
will place administrators, and student
leaders behind a microphone to answer
questions from students.
Eric Dukes, GRCC Comptroller, who
was instrumental in getting the idea off
the ground, and onto the platform said,
"It will serve as a link of communica­tions
between students and administra­tors."
Dukes will serve as a moderator for
what will be "a gripe session, rap ses-sion,
whatever. Anyone with a question
can ask one. The purpose is to be infor­mative.
It's not going to be set up for
personal attacks on people."
Dukes said he hopes there will be suf­ficient
interest. If there is they will be­come
regular events, "maybe we could
have one every month."
"If anyone has a question, and feels
he doesn't want to get up in front of
everyone to ask it, they can submit it in
writing and put it in my box in the Stu­dent
Activities Center," said Dukes.
Those who will be on hand tomorrow
include, the Dean of Instruction, Dean of
Students, Director of Student Programs,
members of the student government, aP..d
the editor of the Current. Dukes said
that Dr. Lindbloom will be present if his
schedule allows it.
MORE
MUSIC
The Green River Swing Choir displayed their talents in a noon concert
yesterday in the Lindbloom Student Center.
Photo By Kari Miller Veterans strive
for united lobby
With the now passed Bonus Bill for
Veterans behind them, and several other
pieces of legislation completed on their
behalf, veterans lobbyists in Washington
State warned that strong and united ef­forts
will have to be made to insure fu­ture
legislative success
While the talley of the agenda ended
up with four victories including the bo­nus
Bill and only one item was defeated,
Ernie Roberts of Tacoma, Legislative
Chairman for Disabled Americans of
Washington State, said that veterans
could have done better with a united
front.
Cited by Roberts were the Bonus Bill,
which would give Vietnam veterans $250
starting in 1973 and a bill that would al­low
the state to provide free tuition for
the dependants of men who are prisoner~
of war m Viet Nam.
Roberts also explained legislation that
would provide for free license tags to
veterans blinded by war action and other
legislation that would provide for the
guardianship of Vietnam veterans who
are incompetent or insane.
While these were passed, another bill
that would have called for preferential
treatment in employment failed. It was a
senate bill which never got out of com­mittee.
Although there were efforts made to
include all Vietnam era veterans in re­cently
passed legislation, they met with
no great success according to Roberts.
Additional efforts, which would have
made this legislation retroactive to 1964,
also failed.
SISTER
SOUL
Audrey Smith from Roosevelt High in Seattle brought the house down
down wit~ her solo Backing her was Roosevelt's Swing Band.
GET
THAT
BOOGIE
Green River pianist Brooke Lizotte shows great concentration in this
number . Featured with the GRCC Jazz Ensamble th is year was alto
saxist Bill Ramsay.
Photos by Terry L. Chubb
Black belt affair
Contestants from the entire West
Coast and parts of Canada will be on
campus March 4 to participate in the
Third Annual Green River Karate Cham­pionships.
This nationally recognized tourna
ment will bring together over 200 partici­pants
to vie in individual competition for
tropnies ana medals.
Sponsored by our two karate organi ­zations
- the J udo-Karate Club and the
Tae-Kwon-Do Club the tournament will
offer competition in the four divisions:
White Belt, Colored Belts. Brown Belt
and Black Belt. Approximately 20 mem­bers
of the two GRCC clubs will take
part in the full day of competition.
The tournament chairman this year is
Steve Armstrong, an eighth degree black
belt, from Tacoma. He will be assisted
by tournament director Lyndon Meredith
and the head referee will be Bob Hill.
Both men are also black belts.
The elimination rounds will begin at
10 :30 a .m. with the final competit10n
starting at 8 p.m.
Admission prices for the tourney are
$1.00 for students (pre-tickets) and $2.00
at the door !$1.50 with ASB l.
Current Quickies
REPRESENTATIVE TO SPEAK
Representative James A. :'vlcDermott
who has been mentioned as a possible
candidate for governor, will be at Green
River Community College March 7.
McDermott will speak in the main dining
area of the LSC at 1:30 p.m. His topic
will be "A Candidate for Governor."
McDermott is a 35 year old doctor
who represents the 43rd district. He is
married and has two children and re­sides
on Capitol Hill in Seattle.
DRAMA DEPT. PRESENTATION
A play entitled "The Children's Hour"
will be presented this weekend and next
in PA 8. The show starts at 8 p.m. and
tickets a re ava ilable at the door.
INFORMATION AVAILABLE
Information on student government,
for students is available by contacting
the Secretary in student programs. Any­one
who wants a copy of the proposed
constitu tion and by-laws, which will
shortly be voted on by the Senate and
students, they are available from student
programs.
BAT GIRLS SOUGHT
The GRCC baseball team is looking
for four (4 l bat girls to help out this sea­son.
Those interested can contact Jack
J ohnson in the ARA Building or the Stu­dent
Programs' Office.